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[scarthgap,RFC] bitbake.conf: Add truncate to HOSTTOOLS

Message ID 20240930-6-11-kallsyms-truncate-v1-1-47fc9143fff9@cherry.de
State Accepted
Delegated to: Steve Sakoman
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Series [scarthgap,RFC] bitbake.conf: Add truncate to HOSTTOOLS | expand

Commit Message

Quentin Schulz Sept. 30, 2024, 10:36 a.m. UTC 
From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

Some wic images need this command. Since it is part of coreutils, it doesn't really
cost anything to have in HOSTTOOLS and it avoids signifiant build dependencies on
coreutils-native.

[YOCTO #15571]

(cherry picked from commit 522000ce5c4f0201cbe42d7826b6a8489ed10117)
[necessary for building Linux kernel >= 6.11 with CONFIG_KALLSYMS, c.f.
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1472464c6248575bf2d01c7f076b94704bb32c95]

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
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The Linux kernel in its 6.11 release or later, with KALLSYMS config
enabled, will now fail to build because truncate host tools is
required, c.f.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1472464c6248575bf2d01c7f076b94704bb32c95

but the kernel recipe doesn't depend on coreutils-native, which is too
big of a dependency for what it brings according to Richard (for the
original patch destined to wic) and Bruce (as discussed over mailing
list for the linux-yocto recipe).

Let's backport a patch that was implemented for something else (wic)
from styhead/master as truncate is pretty much guaranteed to be present
on the host with hopefully no compatibility issues between
implementation.

Marked as RFC because it's a "big" change and I don't want the ML to
just gloss over it without questioning it :)

Note: I'm currently NOT building that kernel in my layer, but it'll come
at some point next year, though I did hit this issue when doing a very
quick test with a local tree.
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 meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


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base-commit: f888dd911529a828820799a7a1b75dfd3a44847c
change-id: 20240930-6-11-kallsyms-truncate-d8d4d9f16d41

Best regards,
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diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index ba8bd5f975..78f15b76ae 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@  HOSTTOOLS += " \
     mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pr printf pwd \
     python3 pzstd ranlib readelf readlink realpath rm rmdir rpcgen sed seq sh \
     sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum \
-    sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true uname \
+    sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true truncate uname \
     uniq unzstd wc wget which xargs zstd \
 "